We seek long-term residents who seek a place to build a life, contribute, and live with folks who share your sense of community. We seek long-term residents who seek not just a nice, inexpensive place to live, but also a place to build a life, contribute, and live with folks who share your sense of community. Usually once folks decide to establish their own homestead and figure how they'd like to
live, they begin searching listings for a given type of housing, which neighborhoods, and a price range. Apriori in those choices are the convenience of their daily commute, neighborhoods they've visited and like, and perceived crime. They consider how attractive and pleasant the place, it's construction, where they can park, amenities. If renting, they consider how pleasant the landlord might be. If buying, they consider taxes and school districts. Except when moving to live with friends and family, they consider nearly all else except their neighbors, whom they meet only after moving. In not choosing people, maybe the most important part, they get default community. Intentional community, instead, reverses the process to consider people first, like moving to live with friends or family. We consider their values, who they are as people, and see first if we like the members of the community and they like us. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community